Marietta Shaginyan
Soviet writer, poet and journalist
- Lived
- 1888–1982
- Country
- Russia
Updated September 2026
About Marietta Shaginyan
Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan was a Soviet writer, historian of Armenian descent. She was one of the "fellow travelers" of the 1920s led by the Serapion Brotherhood and became one of the most prolific communist writers experimenting in satirico-fantastic fiction.
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